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- <List of changes>
MakeCD V3.0 = MakeCD 3.22 (19.12.97)
makecdromfs.module V10.2 (20-12-1997)
ReadWrite.module 11.23 (07.01.98)
CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 10.24 (20.12.97)
CDR_MMC_ATAPI.driver 10.24 (20.12.97)
CDR_Panasonic.driver 10.24 (20.12.97)
CDR_Philips_2000.driver 10.24 (20.12.97)
CDR_Philips_2600.driver 10.24 (20.12.97)
CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 10.24 (20.12.97)
CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 10.24 (20.12.97)
CDR_Sony.driver 10.24 (20.12.97)
CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 10.24 (20.12.97)
CD_ATAPI.driver 10.24 (20.12.97)
CD_NEC.driver 10.24 (20.12.97)
CD_Plextor.driver 10.24 (20.12.97)
CD_ROM.driver 10.24 (20.12.97)
CD_Sony.driver 10.24 (20.12.97)
CD_Toshiba.driver 10.24 (20.12.97)
- disc-at-once
- indices (not always possible in track-at-once)
- rewrote and enhanced GUI
- renamed SCSI drivers
- new settings
- AHI support
- Formating a CD-RW is much more flexible now: can delete session only,
remove fixation, ...
- ISO image creation: a file with a list of filenames can be used to
specify files that are included in the image
- MS-DOS boot options: MakeCD can create ISO images for CD-Rs booting MS-DOS
on a PC now.
- JVC/Teac driver: mode 2 writing (without form) might work now
- CD_ATAPI.driver: Some drives incorrectly reported "wrong track type" errors
when reading CDDA.
- Bugfix: Left and right audio channel should no longer be swapped when
using Amiga audio.
- Bugfix: User aborts were ignored during writing if the IO error handling
was set to "Ignore" or "Pad".
MakeCD V3.1: MakeCD 3.27 (23.01.98)
makecdromfs.module V10.2 (20-12-1997)
ReadWrite.module 12.26 (23.01.98)
CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 11.31 (23.01.98)
CDR_Panasonic.driver 11.31 (23.01.98)
CDR_Philips_2000.driver 11.31 (23.01.98)
CDR_Philips_2600.driver 11.31 (23.01.98)
CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 11.31 (23.01.98)
CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 11.31 (23.01.98)
CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 11.31 (23.01.98)
CDR_Sony.driver 11.31 (23.01.98)
CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 11.31 (23.01.98)
CD_ATAPI.driver 11.31 (23.01.98)
CD_NEC.driver 11.31 (23.01.98)
CD_Plextor.driver 11.31 (23.01.98)
CD_ROM.driver 11.31 (23.01.98)
CD_Sony.driver 11.31 (23.01.98)
CD_Toshiba.driver 11.31 (23.01.98)
***************** SCSI and IO changes **********************
- Read speed can be reduced for data tracks, too.
- slightly improved generic SCSI handling
- SCSI driver now choose supported write command automatically. This
makes writing with Panasonic 7502 and HP 7500+ possible.
- recognize more drives
- MMC driver supports Panasonic/Matsushita 7502 now. However,
this drive has several problems (at least with firmware V3.02 -
V3.05 is available, but untested):
* It often forgets the correct contents of the CD-R. E.g. "Update"
after writing and fixation in test mode makes it forget the
fixation, but not the tracks. Reinsert the CD-R in such a case.
This prevents "write after test" writing.
* It sometimes reads wrong track types from a CD-R (e.g. mode 2
instead of audio).
* ISRCs in DAO don't work at the moment. Make sure your projects
don't contain any, otherwise you will get an "Illegal field in
command descriptor error". This might be fixed soon.
* In DAO mixed CDs have to be copied with raw data. The drive
cannot handle the different block sizes MakeCD uses. If you try
to use cooked data you might get a "buffer underrun" between data
and audio tracks. V3.1 will select raw data if you instruct MakeCD
to choose automatically by using data mode "writer".
* Mode 2, form 1 does not work in TAO.
* In TAO gaps between tracks of different types are too short.
- Bugfix: TOC type was chosen incorrectly for DAO if raw data was written,
resulting in wrong medium type and not working PSX copies. This also
caused Philips/Ricoh/Plextor writers to report a wrong mode for the
mode 2 data track.
- Bugfix: although none given, Philips/Ricoh wrote medium catalog number
both in TAO and DAO. This made PSX copies unusable in a PlayStation.
- Bugfix: data encoding for CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver was wrong, resulting
in trashed DAO CD-Rs.
- Bugfix (Philips, Plextor): didn't work with all controllers
- Bugfix: removing the source CD while MakeCD was preparing for
index scanning trapped MakeCD in a loop until the CD was inserted
again.
- Bugfix: CDR_Sony.driver couldn't write audio tracks.
- SCSI error detection failed for JVC/Teac drives when connected to some
controllers. This prevented writing to empty CD-Rs.
- Yamaha CDR10x couldn't always write all tracks with
cybppc.device V44.2, because this device doesn't report
some essential sense codes. Enhanced workaround.
- Bugfix: priority of conversion process was not always increased
- Bugfix: MMC driver still knew Ricoh MP6200S.
- MMC/ATAPI: support for writing mode 2 with block size 2332; enabled
only for Sony 928E, because mode 2 with 2336 didn't work there. Not
tested completely with Sony 928E yet.
If only mode 2 writing fails for a MMC/ATAPI writer than this optional
mode is not implemented. For known drives like the Sony 928E MakeCD selects
a substitute automatically, but not generally, because PSX copies might
be less compatible in this mode. You can enforce this workaround by
setting a environment variable with "setenv MAKECD_MODE2_MIXED". If it
works only this way, please tell Patrick.
- MMC/ATAPI: $30 and $C are recognizes as buffer underruns, too.
- Bugfix: CDs with two consecutive data tracks of the same type were
not copied properly (e.g. video CDs).
- Bugfix: Adding pause blocks to a ISO image that was written online was not
possible.
- MakeCD now adds some blocks to a created ISO image to compensate for read
errors that might occur at the end (but never did so far - only the
new Panasonic 7502 might trash the last two blocks).
- Renamed CDR_MMC_ATAPI.driver to CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver because of the
confusion caused by the "ATAPI" in the name. ATAPI and MMC (Multi Media
Command set defined by SCSI 3) are so similar that only ome driver is
sufficient to cover both.
************************* GUI changes ********************************
- Several QuickHelps were rewritten.
- ISO image source file requester offers pattern gadgets and shows
.info by default.
- MakeCD can execute several user selectable commands on different
occasions, e.g. to play sounds. If a command is not set, MakeCD
flashes the screen instead to draw the intention to requesters.
- MakeCD now indicates more clearly when the write window is idle again.
- Track option gadgets are disabled if no track exists.
- Track options window is opened after adding a new track.
- Bugfix: changing tracks while pausing audio playing is possible now.
- Bugfix: lock on base dir was not freed if the advanced options
window was open when exiting the program.
- Bugfix: Pausing audio playing did not always work properly, and volume
and filter were reset at the beginning of each new track.
- Bugfix: "-" could be entered in medium catalog number gadget, although it
is an illegal character
MakeCD V3.1a: MakeCD 3.33 (12.02.98)
makecdromfs.module V10.2 (20-12-1997)
ReadWrite.module 13.28 (12.02.98)
SCSISupport.module 12.21 (12.02.98)
CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 12.40 (12.02.98)
CDR_Panasonic.driver 12.40 (12.02.98)
CDR_Philips_2000.driver 12.40 (12.02.98)
CDR_Philips_2600.driver 12.40 (12.02.98)
CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 12.40 (12.02.98)
CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 12.40 (12.02.98)
CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 12.40 (12.02.98)
CDR_Sony.driver 12.40 (12.02.98)
CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 12.40 (12.02.98)
CD_ATAPI.driver 12.40 (12.02.98)
CD_NEC.driver 12.40 (12.02.98)
CD_Plextor.driver 12.40 (12.02.98)
CD_ROM.driver 12.40 (12.02.98)
CD_Sony.driver 12.40 (12.02.98)
CD_Toshiba.driver 12.40 (12.02.98)
***************** SCSI and IO changes **********************
- Bugfix CDR_Yamaha_CDR10x: DAO writing of cooked data + audio was broken.
- Bugfix CDR_Panasonic: writing of audio was broken and the changed generic
SCSI handling might have caused a worse performance.
- Sony 928E: the drive didn't read mode 2 correctly, but with the new raw
mode 2 reading it works now. Writing of mode 2 + audio now works, too.
- Panasonic 7502: the tray is opened and closed to make the drive forget
tracks written in test mode (necessary because just turning off the test
mode confused this drive). With the Commodore scsi.device writing was
aborted due to "bad status" errors although writing seemed to work fine.
This is ignored now, but not completely tested yet.
- Bugfix Philips CDD522: choosing speeds > 2 was not caught by the driver
but caused an error requester.
- Bugfix (SCSI3): ISRCs were written incorrectly in DAO
- Bugfix: MakeCD might have got the track starts and lengths wrong by a
factor of 2 or 4 if the source drive didn't use 2048 bytes as default
block size or was set to this value by some other application.
- CD_Toshiba.driver couldn't read audio tracks after reading a raw
data track (it failed already for the first block).
- improved index scanning to make it more robust
- added some more drive IDs (see Compatibility.guide in case your drive
is still not known)
- Workaround: mode 2 tracks might have been recognized as mode 1 when
writing in DAO with raw data. The relevant part of the track is okay
and a PSX copy actually works in a PlayStation nonetheless. The reason
are probably the missing checksums in the gap before the data track.
- Workaround for mode 2 reading problems (see "MAKECD_READ_MODE2_RAW"
below).
- SCSI3/ATAPI Workaround "MAKECD_MODE2_MIXED" was renamed to
"MAKECD_WRITE_MODE2_MIXED".
- Workaround for PPC SCSI and fixation/repair/format problems:
cybppc.device with version < 44.36 cancels all SCSI commands automatically
that are not returned by the drive in a certain amount of time. This is
done to prevent lockups of the SCSI bus, but it also aborted some of
the commands that are used for CD writing and really go on for a while,
the most common one probably being fixation. Formating, repair and DAO
might also be affected.
MakeCD now applies a workaround for this problem by making the drive return
the command immediately and querying the drive until it is ready again.
However, it depends on the drive and on the command whether this is
possible or not. For fixation this immediate response is only supported by
SCSI3/ATAPI, Philips, Plextor/Ricoh and Yamaha drives, but not by JVC/Teac,
Panasonic/Matsushita or Sony drives (unless they use the SCSI3/ATAPI driver).
It is not supported by any drive for the repair or format commands.
This workaround is only used for the cybppc.device, because not all
other controllers would handle this correctly (the dracoscsi.device
crashes when fixating with a Philips CDD2600 this way).
********************* GUI changes **************************
- CONTEXT SENSITIVE AMIGAGUIDE: Pressing HELP over a gadget opens the
AmigaGuide documentation at the corresponding node. However, this is not
possible with the V2.5 English documentation and the new translation is
not ready yet.
- MakeCD now allows the frequency of AIFF to be off by upto 10%, because
not every system is able to produce exactly 44.1kHz. BE WARNED: MakeCD
does not adapt the frequency, it just assumes it was 44.1kHz. Playing
a sample with a frequency that is 10% too high or low already sounds
quite awful!
- Bugfix: text for publisher field in ISO image was wrong in some cases
- Bugfix: manually jumping between tracks during audio playing still forgot
the current settings for low pass filter and volume.
- Bugfix: updating from final TAO to DAO was not possible with the menu
item "Projects/Registration..."
- MakeCD is more intelligent when choosing the best data format if you don't
override this choice yourself by choosing "raw" or "cooked" explicitely:
some drives like the Panasonic 7502 (firmeware 3.02) have problems when
copying CDs with cooked data, so MakeCD uses raw data by default. However,
if your source is an ISO image than cooked is used as MakeCD couldn't
convert this to raw.
- If speed cannot be set, then the speed gadgets are empty now and no longer
set to the unused value.
- Fix for problems with saving the settings. This might have failed after
fixing the icon position of MakeCD if the Workbench protected the
MakeCD.info from writing.
- fixed some English texts
MakeCD V3.1a - update 1: CD_Toshiba 12.41 (16.02.98)
- Bugfix CD_Toshiba: the fix for the "audio after raw" problem made things
worse. Audio reading now didn't work at all with at least one drive :-(
MakeCD V3.1a - update 2 (available as public beta only):
ReadWrite.module 13.32 public beta (18.03.98)
SCSISupport.module 12.22 public beta (18.03.98)
CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98)
CDR_Panasonic.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98)
CDR_Philips_2000.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98)
CDR_Philips_2600.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98)
CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98)
CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98)
CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98)
CDR_Sony.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98)
CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98)
CD_ATAPI.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98)
CD_NEC.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98)
CD_Plextor.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98)
CD_ROM.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98)
CD_Sony.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98)
CD_Toshiba.driver 12.46 public beta (18.03.98)
- Setting speed with SCSI3/ATAPI is more sophisticated now and also
checks the real speed used by the drive. This method solves problems
with Plextor PX-426S and 2x with Ricoh MP6200S. Note that the Ricoh
seems to be unable to write CD-RW in single speed at all.
- Added raw encoding: now cooked data can be written to drives only
supporting raw data in DAO, e.g. an ISO image can be written in DAO
to a CDD2600.
However, this conversion demands very much computing power and is even
on a 060 hardly fast enough to keep up with 4x. The GUI definetely has
to be changed to warn of that, and as this is not implemented yet the
encoding feature is still disabled by default. It has to be enabled
by setting the environment variable MAKECD_ALLOW_ENCODING.
- The problem with reading the first blocks of a raw DAO copy in some drives
should be fixed now.
- Added some drive IDs and disabled session fixation in DAO for Ricoh 1420/
Plextor PX-24C because these drives don't support that.
- According to the Pioneer documentation modern Pioneer drives (like DR-U12X
and DR-U24X) don't support speed selection at all, therefore they are now
only recognised by the CD_Sony.driver, which doesn't set speed.
- DAO was disabled for the HP 7100+ because firmware 1.x didn't implement
it. However, we have been told that it was added with firmware 2.x to
the HP 7100+ and the similar Philips CDD3610. DAO is now allowed by
MakeCD again, but it hasn't been tested with either of these drives yet.
- DAO is disabled for some drives that haven't implemented it. This avoids
SCSI errors when trying to use it with such drives. However, for tests
with newer firmware versions DAO can be enabled again by setting the
environment variable MAKECD_ALLOW_DAO.
- The priority of read, write and conversion process is increased when doing
critical work. The default priority is 6, because the console.device is
doing CPU consuming work at priority 5. These defaults can be changed by
setting the environment variables MAKECD_INC_PRI_[READ|WRITE|CONV], but
usually there should be no need to do that.
- Invalid status errors that are reported by the combination A3000 SCSI +
Panasonic 7502 are finally ignored properly, so data (= mode 1) works now.
Audio never caused this invalid status errors. However, mode 2 is not
working because the SCSI bus locks completely.
- CD_ATAPI can (and should) be used to read CDs with the Sony 928E.
- No CD_ driver tries to read session infos any more - this was not used
for the source drive and sometimes seemed to have caused problems.
- Automatic "IO Error" handling didn't work properly. Now the real errors
are always reported, too. Write errors are no longer ignored automatically.
However, for read errors that lead to an automatic abort the text still
says "User abort".
- Bugfix: potential memory trashing with the READ_MODE2_RAW workaround.
- Bugfix: using delete mode "immediately" with DAO caused an internal error.
- "Write after test" didn't work properly with drives using the open/close
tray method (Panasonic 7502).
- Bugfix: under a certain timing the amount of filled bytes in the
MakeCD buffer could have been displayed as a large number and 100%.
- Bugfix: SCSI errors were ignored after one command (only happened with
Plextor PX-624C in one case).
MakeCD V3.1b - MakeCD 3.33 (12.02.98)
makecdromfs.module V10.2 (20-12-1997)
ReadWrite.module 13.33 (08.04.98)
SCSISupport.module 12.22 (08.04.98)
CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 12.47 (08.04.98)
CDR_Panasonic.driver 12.47 (08.04.98)
CDR_Philips_2000.driver 12.47 (08.04.98)
CDR_Philips_2600.driver 12.47 (08.04.98)
CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 12.47 (08.04.98)
CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 12.47 (08.04.98)
CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 12.47 (08.04.98)
CDR_Sony.driver 12.47 (08.04.98)
CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 12.47 (08.04.98)
CD_ATAPI.driver 12.47 (08.04.98)
CD_NEC.driver 12.47 (08.04.98)
CD_Plextor.driver 12.47 (08.04.98)
CD_ROM.driver 12.47 (08.04.98)
CD_Sony.driver 12.47 (08.04.98)
CD_Toshiba.driver 12.47 (08.04.98)
all changes from public beta above and:
- Bugfix: converting from raw to cooked data could cause memory trashing.
- Added fallback in mode 2 recognition to raw block reading => mode 2
should be recognized by some more drives.
- Allowed CD_Plextor.driver for Pioneer drives again, because at least
one user was able to set the speed with his DR-U12X (firmware 1.06
1996/10/), although the documentation said that this drive always reads
at maximum speed.
- Teac 56S is no longer fixed to CD_ATAPI.driver, because audio reading
didn't always work.
MakeCD V3.2 - MakeCD 3.59 (10.07.98)
makecdromfs.module V11.0 (24-05-1998)
ReadWrite.module 15.53 (10.07.98)
SCSISupport.module 14.26 (10.07.98)
CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 13.72 (10.07.98)
CDR_Panasonic.driver 13.72 (10.07.98)
CDR_Philips_2000.driver 13.72 (10.07.98)
CDR_Philips_2600.driver 13.72 (10.07.98)
CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 13.72 (10.07.98)
CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 13.72 (10.07.98)
CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 13.72 (10.07.98)
CDR_Sony.driver 13.72 (10.07.98)
CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 13.72 (10.07.98)
CD_ATAPI.driver 13.72 (10.07.98)
CD_NEC.driver 13.72 (10.07.98)
CD_ROM.driver 13.72 (10.07.98)
CD_Sony_Plextor.driver 13.72 (10.07.98)
CD_Toshiba.driver 13.72 (10.07.98)
***************** SCSI and IO changes **********************
- *** DAO for JVC/Teac ***
This is the recommended way of writing CD-Rs with the JVC drives.
It's less error prone than the stop-and-go writing in TAO, and
therefore TAO has to be regarded as being unsupported. Mode 2
writing in TAO has never been tested, but works in DAO. DAO also
solves the TAO problem of CD players stopping at the gap between
tracks.
ISRC/Medium Catalog Number are not supported by at least the JVC
XR-W2010 with firmware V1.51 and errors when trying to use them
are silently ignored.
At least the Philips CDD2600 always only sees the first session
of a DAO-CD-R written with JVC XR-W2010 V1.51, even though
"Fixate: Session" was used and other drives (JVC itself, Yamaha
CDR100) find the next session(s). Could only be fixed by JVC or
Philips.
- MakeCD now reads mono and stereo audio data in 8 or 16 bit and with
any frequency. They can be transformed to stereo, 16 bit, 44.1kHz
on-the-fly, but frequency resampling requires a fast CPU.
The following audio file formats are supported:
* AIFF
* AIFC (only uncompressed)
* MAUD (uncompressed, u-law, a-law)
* WAV (only uncompressed)
* MPEG-A (mpega.library from Stephane TAVENARD has to be installed)
* Samplitude HDP (only 44.1kHz!)
- MPEG-A: recognition of this file type cannot be done with 100% certainty.
It takes a long time to find that a normal image file is not MPEG-A,
and sometimes some are even recognized as MPEGA-A although they aren't.
Therefore MakeCD is no longer testing if a file that has a corresponding
".CDT" (i.e. was originally written by MakeCD itself) or has the suffix
".cdda" or ".raw" is MPEG-A. You cannot compress the image files any
more without renaming them or deleting the .CDT file, but otherwise you
are strongly encouraged to leave the .CDT file as it is or to use one of
the suffices to mark CDDA!
If you have problems with MPEG-A recognition, then please contact the
author of the mpega.library, as the recognition is completely done
by this library.
- MakeCD also writes different audio formats. This is selected by
using appropriate suffices for the image filenames:
AIFF: .aiff, .aif
AIFC: .afc, .aifc
MAUD: .maud
WAVE: .wav, .wave
All data is always uncompressed, 16bit, stereo, 44.1kHz.
- Some drives allow to write more than the nominal capacity of data in DAO.
This is probably possible by bending some rules in CD-ROM/CD-R standards.
You may use this "feature" now by ignoring the warning that MakeCD
issues if space is not sufficient, but be warned: your drive may report
errors.
Yamaha CDR10x doesn't support this. CDD2600 allows writing of any amount
of data, but does no check itself at all. Instead, writing fails at the end.
- Changed generic SCSI handling: MakeCD was using redundant commands
that might have avoided certain timing problems with some systems
(e.g. Philips CDD2600 + Phase 5 SCSI kit + audio reading).
Unfortunately this also seemed to increase the likelihood of SCSI
problems on unstable systems (e.g. reported for Fastlane). Now
these redundant commands are only used when reading audio from
Philips drives. If you think MakeCD is less stable or audio quality
decreased in V3.2, then use "setenv MAKECD_COMPLEX_SCSI_IO=1" to
go back to the previous behaviour and report if this helps. As
before, "setenv MAKECD_SIMPLE_SCSI_IO=1" avoids unnecessary commands
completely.
- CD_Sony and CD_Plextor were merged, because the only difference
was the ability to set speed with CD_Plextor. This ability is now
tested automatically, so there's no need anymore to select the
correct driver. Should this test fail, then you can fix this ability
with MAKECD_SONY_PLEXTOR_SPEED_NO and MAKECD_SONY_PLEXTOR_SPEED_YES.
- Raw encoding (calculating error correction codes and checksums) is enabled,
but there is a warning about the high CPU demands. One choice in this
requester disables the warning permanently. Raw encoding is necessary to
write ISO images in DAO to drives like the Philips CDD2600, Ricoh MP6200S
and Ricoh 1420 that only support raw data in DAO.
- TAO + same source/target + "Write Tracks": you can avoid swapping
source and target disc for every track now. If you choose
"Delete image: after CD/never" instead of "immediately", then MakeCD
will copy these tracks to images first, because you need the space
for all images at once anyway. "Delete image: immediately" can still
be used to copy a CD one track at a time (in case you don't have enough
HD space).
- Teac 55S: sometimes the drive reports an empty CD if there are read
errors when the drive specific commands are used; MakeCD recognizes this
now and uses the standard command in this case.
- Plextor PX-412: the BLOCK jumper may be set now. This helped to avoid
SCSI problems with a CyberSCSI controller and might help on other
systems, too. This helps because this jumper not only changes the default
block size but also reduces the peak transfer rate from 10MB/s to 5MB/s.
- Mitsumi 2600TE/2800TE: the MAKECD_MODE2_WRITE_MIXED workaround is now
enabled by default, because the normal method of writing with 2336 bytes
is not supported by the drive.
Workaround for crash during fixation. Many thanks to Eyetech for providing
their EZWriter kit (A1200 + Mitsumi CR-2801TE) as test environment!
- This workaround will be selected automatically now for all unknown drives.
- CD_Atapi: workaround for NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:282 V3.05
- Classic Squirrel: Some SCSI devices don't set scsi_Actual correctly.
In this case MakeCD is adding warnings to the internal log, which may
slow down the reading/writing if they cause every read/write command
to be logged.
This happened with the Classic Squirrel that seems to return only
transfer lengths that are a multiple of 512, even if some other amount
of data was transfered. These warnings are now always turned off for
squirrelscsi.device. If you have another SCSI device that has this
problem, then "setenv MAKECD_NO_LENGTH_WARNING=1".
NTB: not all of the warnings are harmful! When reading the buffer is
larger than the transferred data.
- Philips CDD2000/2600: writing indices in TAO is now optional and
disabled by default, because the command used to setup the indices
seems to be more prone to a SCSI lock-up. Use
"setenv MAKECD_ALLOW_TAO_INDICES=1" if you want to use this feature
again, but be warned...
- Bugfix CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI: "cooked data" in DAO caused wrong buffer underrun
messages if a "negative pause" was used to get pregap data from the source
track. Unfortunately "format of the writer" was "cooked data" for all
drives but Panasonic 7502.
- Bugfix: errors after writing the tracks or the session were not
reported - this could have hidden the fact the drive didn't write
the CD-R correctly, e.g. due to medium errors.
- Bugfix CDR_Panasonic: 1x and 2x speed couldn't be set.
- Bugfix: reading didn't proceed in the special case of direct copying of a
audio CD in DAO, lead-in data generated for drive (e.g. Philips CDD2600),
buffer larger than 20MB and "Fill Buffer completely" enabled.
- Bugfix (at least CDR_Philips_2600): a CD-R that had been filled completely
(e.g. by ignoring a warning about insufficient space in TAO) was reported
as being fixated even if it wasn't. Fixation was still possible, though.
- Bugfix (at least CDR_Philips_2600): "Write after Test" in DAO might have
failed with a SCSI error after the successful simulated write and before
starting the real write.
- Bugfix: "Ignore" in the "Incomplete image file" requester didn't work
properly when creating several image files at once.
- Bugfix: reading/writing project and .CDT files with no indices might
have trashed memory.
- Bugfix: scanning ISO tracks with a directory with many (>5000) files could
have failed
- When writing in TAO without any fixation, MakeCD now assumes you are going
to fix the CD and not only the session. This avoids an unnecessary warning.
- Source drive is reset properly after scanning for indices.
- Added fallback in mode 2 recognition to raw block reading => mode 2
should be recognized by some more drives.
- When aborting writing after a read error caused a write error, the
write error was reported and not the read error (happened only with
JVC DAO).
- Read errors at the very end of an audio CD (the last 1/3 second) are
ignored automatically. Many Toshibas had problems reading the last block.
- If your writer doesn't update properly after a test write, then
"setenv MAKECD_UPDATE_EJECT=1" chooses eject/insert as the method
to do the update.
- To avoid problems with the maximum filename length of the FS ".CDT"
files get shorter filenames now if necessary and another suffices are
replaced.
- MAKECD_NO_WRITE_LOG disables logging of write process during
time critical sections.
********************* GUI changes **************************
- ** NEW: AIFF-CD *** - a file format that allows you to store all the
data defining an audio CD or a mixed mode CD in a single file. Programs
not knowing the extensions will still be able to use the audio data,
but this format is especially useful if you have a sound editing
software that knows the CD specific extensions, like Samplitude.
Then you can setup your audio CD including indices and tracks with
the advanced features of the audio editing software and write with
MakeCD, or copy a CD into a AIFF-CD file with MakeCD and edit this
before writing it back to CD-R.
- *** novice mode *** that hides the more advanced gadgets:
audio tracks: indices, ISRC, Medium Catalog Number
track options: start and length of source, pause
project options: start block, audio CD start, DAO data format
ISO images: all ISO/Rockridge and boot options
copy/append CD: data and file format, ISRC reading and index scanning
write window: transfer rates, indices
- "ISO level: Amiga" is now the default value as this mode is more
flexibel and CD-ROMs created this way work fine with Amiga and
other systems, although some ISO 9660 rules are no longer enforced.
- added track editing function to split the current track at the selected
indices
- error requester for invalid audio image length now allows to accept
such images and to change the corresponding setting
- If using image files is the default (either because the current track
uses one or this gadget state was saved), this is not disabled when
adding a MPEG-A image because decoding MPEG-A might be so slow that
a temporary image file is required.
- The MakeCD environment variables can now alternatively also be
set in the tooltypes instead. They control some internal behaviour
only and are not ment to be used regularly.
- MakeCD now supports automatic opening of the tray/disc ejection
after writing and when asking for a specific disc. This behaviour
is configurable in the commands settings window.
- Enhanced "audio CD start" workaround: instead of setting up a project
that reads audio tracks from different positions the driver itself
reads from the appropriate position to get the right data. This can
be selected in the compatibility settings.
- Made index scanning more robust to compensate for inexact drives.
However, still the same method is used to get subcodes, so it won't
solve the problem that some drives fail with a "track following" or
"positioning" error.
As some copies of games only work with index pause, a default index
pause will be set if no scanning was done or failed. This can be
selected in the "Append/Copy CD" window.
- Automatically created filenames now also contain the length to get
different filenames for tracks from different CDs.
- The following warnings/messages will now be issued:
+ raw data encoding, MPEG-A decoding or frequency resampling
might be too slow for on-the-fly
+ buffer cannot be allocated completely
+ writing in DAO and trying to delete an image file immediately
Reactions for each can (optionally) be saved permanently in the
requester.
- ISO image path is now always cleared when disabling it and set to
the path derived from the source when enabling it again.
- more detailed explanation why type of image file is not suitable
- MakeCD now saves the settings in the icon it was started with.
The main program doesn't have to be copied to use different settings for
different occasions, it's sufficient to create some project icon that
has MakeCD as default project. If the new icon hasn't got any settings,
the main program's settings are used as default until they are saved for
the first time.
- "CD_COPY" as tooltype or shell switch causes MakeCD to go directly
to the CD copy window. From there "Exit Window" and "Setup Project"
still lead back to the main window. This tooltype is used in
CDCopy.info to get a simple "separate" CD copy program...
- "USE_MAIN_PREFS" causes MakeCD to change tooltypes in the program's
icon when saving settings instead of the icon it was started with. This
is used in CDCopy.info already so that settings only have to be done
once for the whole program and stay consistent.
- All other windows are closed while the write window is open.
- Selection of new audio position during playing was improved (now waits
until value hasn't been changed for a short while before jumping).
- MakeCD doesn't require valid base dir to open settings any more.
- "Copy CD" achieved exact track starts in TAO by truncating audio tracks.
This was not obvious and not always desired, therefore this behaviour
is now configurable in the "Copy CD" window.
- The write window and the abort requester now both remind of the current
activity (writing for real, in test mode, not to CD-R at all). It is
also much more verbose about what MakeCD is doing and even predicts
what actions will happen after "Start" and how much time is still
required.
- Write window displays message while unlocking filesystems and before
closing the window - some filesystems sometimes lock up MakeCD at this
stage, for unknown reasons.
- The maximum buffer size is not updated after writing even though the memory
is already freed - this is not quite correct, but less confusing.
- Playing a single track now starts immediately because no track
selection is necessary and the other parameters can be easily changed
while playing.
- MakeCD now distinguishes between "user abort" and "automatic abort as
requested by IO error setting" in messages.
- amigaguide.library is no longer essential to run MakeCD.
- Bugfix: file requester for CDTV/CD32 boot file didn't work properly.
- Bugfix: menu item "Update writer" didn't work.
- Bugfix: menu item "Fix CD-R" only fixated the session
MakeCD 3.2a:
MakeCD 3.62 (12.08.98)
makecdromfs.module V11.0 (24-05-1998)
ReadWrite.module 15.57 (12.08.98)
SCSISupport.module 14.26 (12.08.98)
CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 13.75 (12.08.98)
CDR_Panasonic.driver 13.75 (12.08.98)
CDR_Philips_2000.driver 13.75 (12.08.98)
CDR_Philips_2600.driver 13.75 (12.08.98)
CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 13.75 (12.08.98)
CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 13.75 (12.08.98)
CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 13.75 (12.08.98)
CDR_Sony.driver 13.75 (12.08.98)
CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 13.75 (12.08.98)
CD_ATAPI.driver 13.75 (12.08.98)
CD_NEC.driver 13.75 (12.08.98)
CD_ROM.driver 13.75 (12.08.98)
CD_Sony_Plextor.driver 13.75 (12.08.98)
CD_Toshiba.driver 13.75 (12.08.98)
- **8SVX samples*** are now imported in mono and stereo as long as they
are pure samples, i.e. without repititions.
- bugfix: "Adapt Audio Start" in the hardware compatibilities was not saved
correctly.
- Filtering .CDT in the image file requester is no longer done with a simple
pattern but with a more intelligent function, because for long file names
the suffix is truncated and not recognized.
- Some drives had problems during scanning of the SCSI bus if the
CD_Sony_Plextor.driver was installed.
- bugfix: jumping within MPEG-A images during playing was only possible in
the first ~40min of each image
- bugfix: getting the length of .WAV files without FACT chunk broke in a
last minute fix for invalid .WAV headers :-/
- CD_ATAPI.driver: reading didn't work with drives any more that didn't
support selecting the block size.
- ".iso" can also be used to prevent the (false) recognition of images
as MPEG-A.
- bugfix CDR_Ricoh_6200/CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver: erasing a track on a CD-RW
was _clearing_ the track, i.e. overwriting its contents with zero, and
not actually _removing_ it as documented in MakeCD.
BTW: if erasing a CD-RW doesn't work, turn off the global test mode again
as it is by default - the test mode setting in the write window is set
and saved independently.
- bugfix DAO + session fixation: MakeCD overestimated the required
space by 30s and therefore issued a warning in cases where it wasn't
necessary.
- bugfix: conversion of strange frequencies left some random bytes at the
end of the sample uncleared, which resulted in a short clicking noise.
- workaround for MAUD: different interpretations are used for the field
defining the length of the sample. Unfortunately, MakeCD had been
made compliant with a software that set this field incorrectly and
therefore read only one half of correct samples. The real length is
now recognized in both cases and correct MAUD images are generated.
MakeCD V3.2a, update (beta):
ReadWrite.module 15.58 public beta (12.09.98)
CD_Toshiba.driver 13.78 public beta (12.09.98)
- workaround for 8SVX files with invalid number of samples in header
- CD_Toshiba: the driver now tries to enable a 4x audio read mode
that is supported by some Toshiba drives, e.g. XM5701B, XM6201B, and
XM3801B. Reducing the speed for normal data tracks to 1x is also
possible.
- CD_Toshiba/CD_Plextor: the environment variable for enabling/preventing
speed selection have been changed to MAKECD_SPEED_NO and
MAKECD_SPEED_YES.
- bugfix: byte order of raw data files could have been reversed,
completely trashing data tracks in DAO.
MakeCD V3.2b - MakeCD 3.68 (11.03.99)
makecdromfs.module V11.2 (23-08-1998)
ReadWrite.module 15.60 (11.03.99)
SCSISupport.module 14.29 (11.03.99)
CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 13.87 (11.03.99)
CDR_Panasonic.driver 13.87 (11.03.99)
CDR_Philips_2000.driver 13.87 (11.03.99)
CDR_Philips_2600.driver 13.87 (11.03.99)
CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 13.87 (11.03.99)
CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 13.87 (11.03.99)
CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 13.88 (19.03.99)
CDR_Sony.driver 13.87 (11.03.99)
CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 13.87 (11.03.99)
CD_ATAPI.driver 13.87 (11.03.99)
CD_NEC.driver 13.87 (11.03.99)
CD_ROM.driver 13.87 (11.03.99)
CD_Sony_Plextor.driver 13.87 (11.03.99)
CD_Toshiba.driver 13.87 (11.03.99)
***************** SCSI and IO changes **********************
- JVC/Teac: avoid zero length pauses, which were not handled correctly
by the Teac 55S. This causes MakeCD to lock after filling the buffer
and might have been responsible for the invalid mixed mode CD-Rs, too.
- Teac 55S: workaround for the drive returning an invalid and random
start block. This failure made it impossible to write multisession
CD-Rs or to read such a track.
- bugfix: changing the code for padding audio samples broke the padding
in some other cases, resulting in glitches at the end of tracks.
- Philips CDD3600: support for TAO; update after simulated write with
ejecting caddy as it doesn't work without; audio scanning.
- Yamaha CRW4001: writing in DAO is possible now, too (I think it did
before already, but perhaps a more recent firmware broke this?).
- Yamaha CRW4416S: workaround for invalid mode 2 recognition
- added recognition of Plextor PX40 and PX-R820T and guessed
strings for new Yamaha drives
- Philips CDD522: writing in TAO reported an after each track, which
is now avoided
- JVC XR-W2042: added recognition and support for erasing CD-RW
- CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver: ISRCs were written for the wrong tracks
beyond track 9 in DAO.
- Mitsumi CR-4801TE: added recognition and enabled workaround for
fixation crash
- The workaround for crashes after fixation with the Mitsumi
ATAPI drives can now be enabled by setting the tooltype
MAKECD_MITSUMI_FIXATE.
- Mitsumi ATAPI/SCSI3 drives: recent firmware revisions finally
implement cue-sheet-DAO (at least for the Mitsumi CR-4801TE),
so MakeCD allows DAO again. If you get the error
"MODE_SELECT6: Illegal Field in Parameter List", see
below for an explanation and perhaps update the firmware.
- Plextor PX-W4420T: added recognition
- Plextor PX-R412C, PX-R820T, PX-W4220T: recent firmware revisions
failed to write PSX discs correctly in DAO. MakeCD works around
this problem by using a slightly different data mode.
MAKECD_WRITE_MODE2_MIXED_DAO enables this mode (which is on by
default for the Plextor drives) and MAKECD_WRITE_MODE2_MIXED_DAO_NO
overrides this default (for testing purposes).
- Yamaha drives: index scanning was off by two second because the
firmware reports a position that was shifted by 150 blocks.
MAKECD_AUDIO_MSF works around this problem by avoiding the incorrect
logical block addresses. It is enabled for Yamaha drives by default.
- HP CD-Writer+ 7200i: the drive does not update properly after
a test write, so now the "brute force" method of ejecting the disc
is used by default (MAKECD_UPDATE_EJECT).
- MAKECD_RETRIES can be used to increase the number of automatic
retries in case of read errors from a CD. The default is 2, because
most drives do retries themselves already.
- Memorex CR-622: added recognition
- audio scanning: with some drives MakeCD would have to start audio
playing beyond the end of the disc in order to get a value from the
actually desired position - this only resulted in an error and is
avoided now.
- Audio scanning now also recognises tracks without pause correctly.
- mpega.library for WarpOS: workaround for the library's broken
IO functions; MakeCD uses asyncio.lib now (does not improve
performance unless the source MPEG-A is on an extremly slow device).
- bugfix: downsampling of audio data broke recently
- changed module initialisation
********************* GUI changes **************************
- Requesters behave like the other windows now: they are not
activated if no MakeCD window is active.
- Shortened filenames created by "Copy/Append CD":
AudioN = AudioNormal, AudioP = AudioPreamphasize
- Enabled #?.cdt as reject pattern again for incomplete ASL replacements
that don't use the filter function that was (and is) provided by MakeCD.
- reread CD-R contents after fixation/repair/format only if
action was not canceled.
- bugfix: size of project was not updated after appending another
project
- bugfix: from the Shell MakeCD had to be started with the current
directory being the directory with the program, otherwise saving
prefs was impossible.
- fixed some underscore clashes in the English gadget texts,
enabled more than 99:99min display of total CD length
- The buffer display was incorrect after aborting while filling
the buffer.
V3.2b update 1: MakeCD 3.69 (30.08.99)
makecdromfs.module V11.2 (23-08-1998)
V11.0 (24-05-1998)
ReadWrite.module 15.61 (11.09.99)
SCSISupport.module 14.29 (30.08.99)
CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 13.89 (11.09.99)
CDR_Panasonic.driver 13.89 (11.09.99)
CDR_Philips_2000.driver 13.89 (11.09.99)
CDR_Philips_2600.driver 13.89 (11.09.99)
CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 13.89 (11.09.99)
CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 13.89 (11.09.99)
CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 13.89 (11.09.99)
CDR_Sony.driver 13.89 (11.09.99)
CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 13.89 (11.09.99)
CD_ATAPI.driver 13.89 (11.09.99)
CD_NEC.driver 13.89 (11.09.99)
CD_ROM.driver 13.89 (11.09.99)
CD_Sony_Plextor.driver 13.89 (11.09.99)
CD_Toshiba.driver 13.89 (11.09.99)
- makecdromfs.module: release V3.2b came with a newer version
than originally listed in the history (V11.2 instead of V11.0)
and didn't mention that this version fixed the long filename
crash. However, in V11.2 the file list feature broke (larger
numbers of entries don't work).
Therefore V3.2b update 1 comes with both versions in modules.
Please use the one that is more suitable for your tasks by
renaming it to "makecdromfs.module" without version in the
filename.
- Any user registered for commercial usage of MakeCD is now allowed
to use MakeCD without any restrictions, i.e. those who were not
allowed to produce master CDs for mass reproduction are now allowed
to do so and can set the publisher field of an ISO track.
A registration for commercial usage is thus available from Katrin
Schmidt for the fixed price of 300,- no matter what you are going
to use it for. We understand that our previous system has outlived
itself, but it has at least to some extend served its purpose:
by getting more money from those who could afford it we were able
to offer MakeCD cheaper to others. Therefore our thanks are due to
those who have accepted to pay the higher rate - I hope you don't
feel cheated and understand why we grant the same rights to all
commercial users now.
- added recognition of: MITSUMI CR-4802TE, RICOH MP7040[A/S],
TEAC CD-R56S and CD-R58S, PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-303/DVD-U02,
SAMSUNG CD-ROM SCR-3231, YAMAHA CRW6416S, PLEXTOR PX-W8220T
- enabled eject workaround for Acer CD-R/RW CRW6206A
- disabled speed setting for Sony CD-ROM CDU-76S because of problems
- bugfix: removed a race condition that prevented MakeCD from
closing its write window when its task priorities had been changed
by the user.
- Fixed one problem with transfer length warnings when reading a
mixed mode CD with a MMC drive connected to Phase 5 SCSI devices.
- Some ATAPI CD-ROMs are unable to cope with chunk sizes beyond 64KB
(e.g. Asus 50x). Unfortunately MakeCD was rounding up the selected
chunk size to the next common multiple of 512 and the blocksize
in order to (possibly) increasing filesystem performance, which
happens to be larger for audio. Therefore writing audio images to
disk failed, whereas direct copying and playing tracks worked. Now
the selected chunk size is a real upper limit.
- The mode 2 writing mode which can be selected for MMC drives with
MAKECD_WRITE_MODE2_MIXED_DAO is now the default for unknown drives,
because it seems to be more commonly used and thus works better.
E.g. the Plextor drives needed this tooltype. The other mode
can be selected with MAKECD_WRITE_MODE2_MIXED_DAO_NO.
- The GUI allows setting the chunk size to a minimum of 20KB. If you
get the IO error -4 and use the uaescsi.device (part of UAE 0.8.9),
then reduce the chunk size to something below 32KB or recompile
your kernel with a larger maximum SCSI DMA transfer.
V3.2c: MakeCD 3.70 (05.11.99)
makecdromfs.module V11.3 (07-11-1999)
ReadWrite.module 15.61 (07.11.99)
SCSISupport.module 14.29 (05.11.99)
CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 13.90 (05.11.99)
CDR_Panasonic.driver 13.90 (05.11.99)
CDR_Philips_2000.driver 13.90 (05.11.99)
CDR_Philips_2600.driver 13.90 (05.11.99)
CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 13.90 (05.11.99)
CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 13.90 (05.11.99)
CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 13.90 (05.11.99)
CDR_Sony.driver 13.90 (05.11.99)
CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 13.90 (05.11.99)
CD_ATAPI.driver 13.90 (05.11.99)
CD_NEC.driver 13.90 (05.11.99)
CD_ROM.driver 13.90 (05.11.99)
CD_Sony_Plextor.driver 13.90 (05.11.99)
CD_Toshiba.driver 13.90 (05.11.99)
- fixed recognition of Ricoh MP7040 aand of CD-R58S
- makecdromfs.module V11.3 fixes both problems with long
filenames and file lists
V3.2d public beta:
MakeCD 3.72 public beta (14.08.36)
ReadWrite.module 15.62 public beta (14.08.36)
SCSISupport.module 14.29 public beta (14.08.36)
CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 13.92 public beta (14.08.36)
CDR_Panasonic.driver 13.92 public beta (14.08.36)
CDR_Philips_2000.driver 13.92 public beta (14.08.36)
CDR_Philips_2600.driver 13.92 public beta (14.08.36)
CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 13.92 public beta (14.08.36)
CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 13.92 public beta (14.08.36)
CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 13.92 public beta (14.08.36)
CDR_Sony.driver 13.92 public beta (14.08.36)
CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 13.92 public beta (14.08.36)
CD_ATAPI.driver 13.92 public beta (14.08.36)
CD_NEC.driver 13.92 public beta (14.08.36)
CD_ROM.driver 13.92 public beta (14.08.36)
CD_Sony_Plextor.driver 13.92 public beta (14.08.36)
CD_Toshiba.driver 13.92 public beta (14.08.36)
- Added raw writing (aka ATAPI DAO) to the
CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver; now all modern drives should
be supported in both TAO and DAO.
MakeCD recognizes which mode is used by a drive and
uses cue-sheet-DAO if possible, because it does not
require raw data and allows to fixate only the session.
(look at the drive properties to find out if the
CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver only supports raw data in DAO
for your drive; then it is limited to raw writing).
You can force MakeCD to use raw writing by adding
MAKECD_RAW_WRITING to the tooltypes.
- move to the correct position in an image file before
starting to write; helps to avoid buffer underruns
with FFS, a small buffer and files like AIFF-CD,
where the reading position is very far away from the
beginning
- several workarounds for Sony and recent HP drives;
DAO now works with e.g. CRX140S. MakeCD now uses a
different command order when initializing for DAO
writing - try MAKECD_OLD_DAO if you use the
CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver and DAO writing stops
working with this version of MakeCD.
- added recognition of Teac CR-R58S, Yamaha CRW8424E/S,
Ricoh MP7060S, Plextor PX-W124TS, Plextor PX-W1210A,
Sony CRX100E, Sony CRX140S, Mitsumi CR-4804TE,
Cyberdrive CDRW602, HP CD-Writer+ 9100/9300;
I have been told that the CR-4804TE does no longer
require a delay after fixation to avoid crashes after
firmware 2.6, so you may try adding
"MAKECD_MITSUMI_FIX_DELAY=0" in you tooltypes.
- Burn Proof writing can be enabled by setting
MAKECD_BURN_PROOF in the tooltypes or as an environment
variable. Only some 12x recorder support this; otherwise
MakeCD will not use this mode and indicate this by adding
"Burn Proof not supported" to the log.
Burn Proof is a mode developed by Sanyo that tries to
avoid buffer underruns by restarting burning as close as
possible to the position where writing stopped.
- try to enable high speed mode of 12x writers by setting
one vendor specific bit
- bugfix: 12x writing in DAO was only enabled when
explicitely asking for it, but not when using "0" for
maximum speed
- GUI: when appending audio image files that need a target image
file (i.e. when reading mp3), then the target file format is
taken from the current track or the last saved gadget state.
V3.2d public beta 2:
MakeCD 3.72 public beta 2 (Aug 14 2000)
SCSISupport.module 14.29 public beta 2 (14.8.0)
CDR_JVC_Teac.driver 13.93 public beta 2 (Aug 14 2000)
CDR_Panasonic.driver 13.93 public beta 2 (Aug 14 2000)
CDR_Philips_2000.driver 13.93 public beta 2 (Aug 14 2000)
CDR_Philips_2600.driver 13.93 public beta 2 (Aug 14 2000)
CDR_Plextor_Ricoh.driver 13.93 public beta 2 (Aug 14 2000)
CDR_Ricoh_6200.driver 13.93 public beta 2 (Aug 14 2000)
CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver 13.93 public beta 2 (Aug 14 2000)
CDR_Sony.driver 13.93 public beta 2 (Aug 14 2000)
CDR_Yamaha_10x.driver 13.93 public beta 2 (Aug 14 2000)
CD_ATAPI.driver 13.93 public beta 2 (Aug 14 2000)
CD_NEC.driver 13.93 public beta 2 (Aug 14 2000)
CD_ROM.driver 13.93 public beta 2 (Aug 14 2000)
CD_Sony_Plextor.driver 13.93 public beta 2 (Aug 14 2000)
CD_Toshiba.driver 13.93 public beta 2 (Aug 14 2000)
- setting speed was impossible with e.g. a Yamaha 8424 because
the drive did not reject a vendor specific bit to enable high speed
properly, even though the speed was not changed by the drive
- workaround for reading certain discs with Ricoh MP7060 (the end
of the disc was not reported properly, resulting in a long pause
after the last track)
Known problems:
- Sony (and thus probably some HP drives) don't allow "Session Fixation"
in DAO if at least one track is a data track. Use "Disc Fixation" if
you get SCSI errors before writing starts. Also writing in DAO to a
non-empty disc doesn't seem to be supported. Use TAO instead.
- Some ATAPI drives cannot handle large chunks, e.g. the HP 9310i crashes
when chunks larger than 128KB are used. Use smaller chunks, 64KB should
be safe.
- Teac 56S: PSX copies don't work when done in DAO; please use TAO instead.
- Teac 50S: discs with data + audio tracks cannot be written in DAO
(writing fails with error code $5/$CC). As the documentation shows, it
is simply not supported by the firmware.
- Panasonic 7502 V4.10: audio subcodes are incorrectly written in
one case, but others were not able to reproduce this.
Solution: avoid indices and index pauses if you have this problem,
this works. To achieve this, set the "default index pause" to 0 in
the "Copy CD" window and disable index scanning.
- Remaining time during writing is sometimes completely wrong due to
the way this estimation is done. That's just the way it works.
- JVC XR-W2010 V1.51: ISRC/Medium Catalog Number are not supported,
therefore errors when trying to use them are silently ignored.
At least the Philips CDD2600 always only sees the first session
of a DAO-CD-R written with JVC XR-W2010 V1.51, even though
"Fixate: Session" was used and other drives (JVC itself, Yamaha
CDR100) find the next session(s). Could only be fixed by JVC or
Philips.
- Before closing the write window MakeCD hangs on some systems. This
is caused by the filesystem that MakeCD locked to get exclusive
access to the hardware. Don't mount filesystems on your writer
or unmount them before using MakeCD.
- The Sony 928E sometimes returns garbage values when reading the contents
of a CD with the CD writer specific commands. This doesn't happen when
the standard commands are used, so the CD_ATAPI driver should be used for
reading from the Sony 928E.
- workaround for mode 2 (2336 bytes) reading problems:
Some drives deliver invalid data with this block size (Sony 928E), others
report checksum errors although they shouldn't use the checksums (Plextor
PX-20TS). In both cases reading raw data still works, so now MakeCD can
read mode 2 tracks raw and throws away the unnecessary bytes if necessary.
This workaround is enabled only for the Sony 928E, but not for any other
drive, because some drives might read raw data slower and the additional
processing requires more CPU time. On slow computers with fast drives the
computer might perhaps even appear to be locked.
If your drive has similar problems you can enable this workaround by
creating the environment variable "MAKECD_READ_MODE2_RAW" (e.g. with
"setenv MAKECD_READ_MODE2_RAW=1"). Please tell Patrick if your drive only
reads mode 2 properly with this workaround.
- Panasonic 7501: writing mode 2 fails with an error. As I haven't found a
way around that mode 2 in spite of several different attempts this will
stay this way, i.e. writing mode 2 will never be supported by
CDR_Panasonic.driver.
- Triton has some problems when you keep the cursor keys pressed
to move within a listview: it might cause MakeCD to open windows.
It also doesn't calculate the width of the data mode gadget correctly.
- Ricoh MP6200S (V1.00): doesn't support medium catalog number in DAO,
swallows ISRC of first audio track in DAO
- The amount of free blocks is not perfectly correct, because writers
report different values depending on what was already written. Sometimes
gaps are included and sometimes not. This causes an inaccuracy of upto
3 seconds. The end of CD-R check is not affected, though.
- The Ricoh MP6200S doesn't simulate formating. Therefore MakeCD doesn't
issue the formating command at all if test mode is enabled.
- Writing audio with preemphasize is not possible with CDR400 (upto V1.0d).
Yamaha didn't respond to my bug report, so I implemented a fallback
to normal audio.
- Yamaha CDR400 sometimes panics after a buffer underrun and doesn't
stop writing. Yamaha could not help with this problem yet.
- Ricoh 1420 sometimes doesn't read contents properly. Exact reason/solution
unknown, but turning disconnect off and SCSI bus reset help.
- dracoscsi.device SCSI direct still doesn't work properly. You must have
enough free memory in your first memory module or a 32MB module in the
first socket, otherwise the dracoscsi.device will fail and probably cause
crashes or read errors. The same rules apply to every other software doing
SCSI direct.